Year: 2011

ObamaCare Redistributes Our Wealth to Obama’s Deep-Pocketed Backers

Posted on by Dave Blount

In addition to the general purpose of giving federal bureaucrats more control over the life and death of every American, ObamaCare also advances more specific objectives — such as spreading the wealth around from taxpayers to the unions and crony capitalists who finance Obama’s campaigns: Facing questions from both parties in the Congress, the Obama […]

 

Murder of UN Staffers Further Exposes Left’s Bigotry and Multiculturalism Zealotry

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

On Friday, as many as 20 United Nations staffers were killed in Afghanistan. Reuters reported it this way (emphasis added): (Reuters) – Afghan protesters angered by the burning of a Koran by an obscure U.S. pastor killed up to 20 U.N. staff, beheading two foreigners, when they over-ran a compound in a normally peaceful northern city on Friday in the worst ever attack […]

 

Union Chief Tries to Steal Civil Rights Movement

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A few weeks ago AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka used the Civil Rights movement as a comparison for his union work. He wanted his audience to imagine that unionism is somehow just like the struggles for equality under the law that African Americans sought in the middle of last century. This is a disgusting attempt by […]

 

Indiana Democrat Fleebagger Compares Himself to Our Soldiers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is nothing worse than some self-interested politician acting as if his partisan political agenda makes him serving his country just like our brave soldiers at war. But here we have it from Indiana’s 69th District Democrat Dave Cheatham, one of the Hoosier State Reps that ran off to Illinois to avoid doing his job […]

 

Indiana Makes Great Strides in School Choice, Pro-Life Legislation

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

While everyone has been focusing on the Nazi signs being carried by “teachers” in Wisconsin, Indiana’s fleebaggers have finally come home and the state’s legislature has gotten down to business. The result has been some great conservative victories for school choice and pro-choice legislation. Hoosier Access has the finer points and details, but I’ll give […]

 

Shockingly, Aussies Are Irritated By The Subject Of Globull Warming

Posted on by William Teach

Oh, and they are apparently given poor information to change their minds and become followers of Gore A LACK of “credible information” is one of the main reasons that 40 per cent of Australians do not believe that humans have a role in global warming, according to the head of the federal government’s Climate Commission, […]

 

Politico: War Obama Launched Gets In The Way Of Obama’s Economy Talking Points

Posted on by William Teach

Truly one of the funniest, or, is that “most absurd?”, headlines of the day, via the Politico’s Glenn Thrush: Now Libya steps on President Obama’s message President Barack Obama’s decision to intervene in Libya has presented him with a whole new set of political problems with members of both parties. But its most worrisome effect […]

 

The Good News & The Bad News: Libya Rebels Just Learning How To Use Their Guns

Posted on by John Hawkins

On the one hand, our new allies in Libya are, how can I put this delicately, a wee bit inexperienced. Bernwi, the exterminator, said his father practically ordered him to the front. He bought a Kalashnikov and found a military uniform abandoned by one of Kadafi’s militiamen. He had never owned a gun or fatigues. […]

 

Afghanistan Murder Apologists Reid & Graham Call for Free Speech Limits & Koran Burning Inquiry

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

From Newsreal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed! This is utterly revolting: U.S. lawmakers said Sunday they would consider a request by AfghanPresident Hamid Karzai to formally condemn a Florida pastor’s decisionto burn the Koran, after the act triggered deadly riots in Afghanistan. Note that once again it is being said that one act […]

 

My Ears Are Open: What’s The Democrat Plan To Control Spending?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Have you noticed that BOTH PARTIES say they want to reduce the deficit, but all the discussions inevitably center on REPUBLICAN plans? We also get quotes like this one from Chris Van Hollen, “It seems to be the same old, same old,” said Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the Budget […]

 

We Can’t Dictate What People Do Here Based On What Illiterate Muslim Savages Do Over There

Posted on by John Hawkins

You have a First Amendment RIGHT to burn a Koran, just as you have a First Amendment Right to burn a Bible, a Torah, or a Bhagavad Gita. However, I wouldn’t recommend burning any of those books simply because it’s needlessly offensive to people of other faiths. Still, there’s only one religion that has followers […]

 

Union boycott threats: see how ridiculous you sound?

Posted on by TrogloPundit

If you’re not with us, you’re against us! That’s the “new tone” coming from union leaders in Wisconsin. In case you missed it, AFSCME has taken to sending letters to local businesses, containing a thinly veiled threat of boycott if those businesses don’t place a pro-union sign in their windows. Mister Pterodactyl linked the story […]

 

This Week in Automotivators, March 28-April 3

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged about them or not. Click the link underneath each if you need a little more explanation. First, one I should have used last week: That’s from our Wisconsin Rules the World collection. Grandpa Steve mocked one up for me: Emphasis on “mocked.” […]

 

In NJ Redistricting fight the people got hosed

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

It’s the kind of inside baseball political battle that cures most people’s insomnia — the decennial redrawing of NJ’s legislative districts. But the stakes couldn’t be higher because shifting some lines on a map can have far-reaching consequences for the future of our state. Who’s in, and who’s not; which towns are sliced and diced, […]

 

George W. Bush Reduced CO2 By 21%: Will Warmists Embrace Him Now?

Posted on by William Teach

Well, obviously the answer to the question is “no,” since this Grist article by Clark Williams-Derry never even names him once Great Scott, how did I miss this? Late last month, the EPA released a draft greenhouse gas inventory, showing that net climate warming emissions from the U.S. fell by a whopping 15 percent from […]

 

Crony Capitalism Today: Ma Bell 2.0 Invested $15.5M to Lobby Federal Government Just Prior to Its Planned Takeover of T-Mobile

Posted on by Doug Ross

AT&T’s recent announcement that it will buy wireless provider T-Mobile is yet another potentially crippling blow to the free market. In the exploding world of wireless, crony capitalism is helping to destroy competition. And it’s all been facilitated by horrific policies set down by the FCC and Congress, who have benefited mightily over the decades […]

 

NJ Democrat pushing pension reform exploited double-dip loophole

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

I don’t know which is funnier. A prominent NJ Democrat caught red-handed exploiting a loophole he’s pushing to eliminate, or… Public employee unions aiming their ire and indignation at the Democratic Party hands that feed them because of it. State’s largest police union calls for Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo to resign The state’s largest […]

 

Grist Wonders, Is Breaking Wind Bad For Climate Change?

Posted on by William Teach

Fortunately, the answer finally ends up being “no, they don’t.” I say fortunately, because if the answer was “yes,” all of us deniers Realists would run out and eat spicy food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and you know where that would lead. Q: Dear Umbra, The other day I was sitting on the couch […]

 

Deadly Riots In Afghanistan Go For A Second Day

Posted on by William Teach

The NY Times call these “deadly protests.” Sounds more like a riot to me Violent protests over the burning of a Koran in Florida flared for a second straight day, with young men rampaging through the streets of this southern capital, flying Taliban flags and wielding sticks. Eight people were killed and 61 injured in […]

 

Justice Department Clears Itself on Black Panthers Outrage

Posted on by Dave Blount

Having looked into its appalling dismissal of the open and shut case of voter intimidation against New Black Panther activists, the Justice Department has cleared itself of any wrongdoing. Despite appearances, the situation has nothing to do with the DOJ’s policy of never prosecuting civil rights cases if the defendant is Caucasian. It’s official: The […]

 

We May Soon Be Bombing Both Sides in Libya

Posted on by Dave Blount

We may have an explanation for Comrade Obama’s inscrutable behavior in Libya. There’s no need to envision a complex, SPECTRE-esque international conspiracy of the sort Glenn Beck is often on the verge of revealing, when our foreign policy is better explained by a single word: incompetence. As NATO takes over control of airstrikes in Libya, […]

 

Wisconsin Union’s Boycott Likely Illegal

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Government union members of AFSCME Council 24 are circulating letters to local businesses in southeast Wisconsin threatening them that if they don’t come to immediate and vocal support of government unions the businesses will be targeted for attack. The union says it won’t be satisfied with statements of neutrality, either. An AFSCME spokesman told the […]

 

Compromised Wisc. Judge Rewrites Stop Order For Union Law… Again

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi has gone back to her order to stop Gov. Scott Walker’s union bill and rewritten it in an effort to assist unions and Democrats (including her Democratic Operative son) continue to ride the gravy train at the expense of the taxpayers. Sumi, whose entire family seems to be up […]

 

Snap! New UN Report Mostly Blames Liberals For ‘Climate Change’

Posted on by William Teach

Humorously, Grist, along with other climate alarmist sites, have been pushing the notion that everyone needs to move to a city for a sustainable lifestyle, yet, there’s a bit of a problem The world’s cities are going to have to move aggressively to curb their greenhouse-gas emissions, or the whole planet is going to pay […]

 

Those Evil Koch Brothers Have An Awesome Highly Unionized Workforce..Wait, What?

Posted on by William Teach

The Left’s current pet target….well, one of them, as Sarah Palin and the TEA Party are still high on their Bitch Meter….., the Koch brothers, have some explaining to do for why they are so evil A number of organizations are advocating a boycott of the products that come from companies owned by the Koch […]